To secure the Empress Dowager position, Niohuru Zhenhuan makes the same deal with Empress Ulanara, where she will let Qingying live if the Empress commits suicide. Qingying witnesses her aunt's suicide in front of her eyes, while the Empress expresses her final wish of wanting Qingying to revenge her and bring back glory to Ulanara clan by becoming Empress in the future. With Emperor Qianlong official succession ceremony, the rest of the inner palace residents are also conferred appropriate official concubine ranks and titles. However, due to Empress Dowager wariness to the late Empress Ulanara, she gives edict for Qingying to be confined in the old prince quarter to mourn for her aunt for three years.
